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David Davies

David Davies

Associate Director and data centre specialist at engineering firm Arup, focused on sustainable and climate-resilient datacentre design.

Sep 28, 2026

7:11
Are we sort of at a point where the demand is there, but supply might not keep up?
7:18
So I would say as, as across the world, I think, yeah, the demand is booming.
7:23
I think there's no deniability in that.
7:25
And everyone's seen that.
7:26
Um, certainly the, the larger constraints we're seeing is, um, power availability.
7:31
And certainly in the UK, yeah, we're seeing grid connectivity constraints, um, of regularly, you know, five to 10 years in some cases.
7:38
Now data centers don't spring up overnight.

7 MINS LATER

14:14
Then as we sort of look to the future and these risks that we've talked about, this resilience, what does a genuinely future-ready data center look like now that's ready to deal with this changing and unpredictable world that we're now living in?

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